4th Edition Of Indian Chemicals Council: 4th edition of Indian Chemicals Council (ICC) Sustainability Conclave recently started in New Delhi. Theme of the two-day event is ‘boardrooms to Community-ESG, Carbon Neutrality, Operational Safety, Greener Solutions’. The Conclave aims to promote sustainability in the management of the entire life cycle of chemicals. It is being organized […]
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Fourth Phase Of Digital Shakti Campaign
Fourth Phase Of Digital Shakti Campaign: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has recently launched the fourth phase of Digital Shakti Campaign. Digital Shakti started in June 2018 to help women across the nation to raise the awareness level on the digital front, to build resilience, and fight cyber-crime in the most effective ways. The […]
Vikram-Suborbital Rocket : Set To Launch
Vikram-Suborbital Rocket : Set To Launch ISRO is set to launch India’s first privately built rocket (Vikram-suborbital (VKS) rocket) from Sriharikota. VKS rocket is developed by the the non-government entity/startup, Skyroot Aerospace Pvt Ltd (SAPL). Apart from being the nation’s first private launch, it will also be the maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named ‘Prarambh’. […]
Artemis 1 : Recent Updates
Artemis 1 : Recent Updates The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States is set to launch the Artemis-1 mission, which will take humans back to the Moon. It is only a lunar Orbiter mission even though, unlike most Orbiter missions, it has a return-to-Earth target — it is intended to lay […]
Indian Biological Data Bank : Faridabad
Indian Biological Data Bank : Faridabad The government has for the first time set up a digitised repository where Indian researchers will store biological data from publicly funded research, reducing their dependency on American and European data banks. The digitised data will be stored on a four-petabyte supercomputer called ‘Brahm’. A petabyte equals 10,00,000 gigabytes […]
International Forum On ‘Right To Drug-Free Childhood’
International Forum On ‘Right To Drug-Free Childhood’: The UN-backed conclave will open in Thiruvananthapuram on November 16, featuring prominent voices against drug abuse from India and abroad. It is organised by Fourth Wave Foundation (FWF) in partnership with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and World Federation Against Drugs (WFAD). Theme: ‘Children Matter-Right […]
Guidelines For Uplinking And Downlinking Of Television Channels In India, 2022
Guidelines For Uplinking And Downlinking Of Television Channels In India, 2022: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has issued guidelines and specified new uplinking and downloading rules. Earlier, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) had issued an advisory stating that any kind of broadcasting be done only through Prasar Bharti. New Provisions: Television channels […]
Vikram-S : India’s First Privately Developed Rocket
Vikram-S : India’s First Privately Developed Rocket India’s first privately developed rocket, Vikram-S, is poised to create history as it undergoes final preparations at the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) launchpad in Sriharikota for launch between November 12 and 16. It was developed by the Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace. The mission named ‘Prarambh’ (the beginning), since […]
Falcon Heavy Rocket
Falcon Heavy Rocket: On November 1, Elon Musk-owned SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into a geosynchronous Earth orbit from the Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S. This is considered as a National Security Space Launch for the U.S. military. This is the fourth launch of the giant rocket system, […]
Malaria Vaccine For Children
Malaria Vaccine For Children: In October 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) for the first time recommended the large-scale use of a malaria vaccine for children living in areas with moderate-to-high malaria transmission. The RTS,S/AS01 (Mosquirix) was developed by GlaxoSmithKline. Malaria kills nearly 600,000 people every year, the majority of whom are children under the […]
